Othello - Off-Broadway Creative Team

Arin Arbus is a director. 2022 productions include THE MERCHANT OF VENICE for Theater for a New Audience (TFANA) and Shakespeare Theatre of DC; LA TRAVIATA for Canadian Opera Company (8 Dora Award nominations). In 2019, she made her Broadway debut directing Terrence McNally’s FRANKIE AND JOHNNY IN THE CLAIR DE LUNE (Tony nomination for Best Revival) starring six-time Tony winner Audra McDonald and two-time Oscar nominee, Michael Shannon. For a decade Arbus served as associate artistic director at TFANA — an off-broadway company whose mission is to develop and vitalize the performance of Shakespeare and other great dramatic works. At ... read more Designs for theater, dance, opera, and non-performance-based work. International work includes The Barbican, Festival Lyric d’Aix-en-Provence, La Comédie-Française, Angers Nantes Opera, La Monnaie, Venice Biennale, Dutch National Opera, Holland Festival, Festival Ljubljana, Canadian Opera Company and Sydney Festival. US work includes Juilliard Opera, Lyric Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Seattle Opera and most major regional theatre companies. New York work includes The Park Avenue Armory and The Public. He is a frequent collaborator with Theatre for a New Audience and Steppenwolf. Education: Wabash College, Yale Drama. Assistant Professor of Theatre at Northwestern University.